A new Attorney General has been named by the Falkland Islands government and for the first time ever an Islander will become Principal Crown Counsel, was announced Monday by Gilbert House in Stanley.
China's GDP expanded slightly slower in the third quarter, 10.4% as a direct consequence of measures to contain the overheating of the economy, reported the Chinese Statistics Office in Beijing.
US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report this year's ozone hole in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere has broken records for area and depth.
The Argentine economy is forecasted to expand over 8% in 2006 for the fourth year running and with a comfortable carry on effect of 3% into 2007, reported Argentina's Central Bank, which originally was estimating a 7% growth.
North Korea is the worst violator of press freedom in the world while journalists in Finland, Ireland, Iceland and the Netherlands enjoy the most liberty, according to a new index released this week by Reporters Without Borders.
Brazilian Energy Minister Silas Rondeau said yesterday there has been progress in talks with Bolivia on new contracts for state energy company Petrobras to comply with Bolivia's gas sector nationalization.
President Evo Morales yesterday declared that Bolivia must not back down from an October-28 deadline to complete the nationalization of its oil and gas industry.
Centrist Geraldo Alckmin hammered President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over corruption allegations in the third televised debate ahead of an Oct. 29 runoff election.
Chilean fisheries exports advanced 10.6% in the first eight months of 2006 compared to the same period last year totaling 1.039 billion US dollars reports Sonapesca, the country's Fisheries Society.
Last Sunday's landslide support for expanding the Panama Canal is causing concern in Chile since the financing of the massive project has yet to be revealed.